The Supreme Court has agreed to consider President Donald Trump’s highly contentious executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to non-citizens. The decision, announced this week via a brief list of orders from the justices’ private conference, marks the highest court’s formal step into the fray surrounding one of the administration’s most significant constitutional challenges.
The high court has set its sights on determining whether babies born to parents who are illegal aliens or temporary visitors truly lose their path to citizenship under current interpretation. If the ruling goes against Trump, it could fundamentally reshape a cornerstone principle that this nation and others have long considered sacrosanct: birthright citizenship.
